About Marcy
I'm tackling a series of challenges, and I'm becoming less timid and squeamish in the process. I'm also writing my memoirs, one scene at a time. Come along for the ride. Read more.-
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"Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better." --Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Recent Posts
- American Fried Rice and Mother’s Day Brunch
- Penelope, Persephone, and Imperfection
- A bucket of golf balls
- Timid No More eBook Trailer
- Simplicity
- Sneak Peak: Timid No More, an eBook
- Draw My Life, Please
- 10 Chapters in a Book About Me
- First World Problems
- Bad News Shop: Bases Loaded, Bottom of the Ninth
Recent Comments
- Daniel Nest { Awesome post, awesome kids, awesome breakfast! Trifecta of awesomeness. } – May 18, 2:16 PM
- zoe { What a beautiful family! I loved this post! AMerican fried rice....ick. } – May 18, 2:05 PM
- nataliedeyoung { How beautiful, and how true.
And I laughed at the "American Fried Rice." } – May 18, 1:23 PM - Adaobi { You had me at American Fried Rice and the picture, food glorious food...the rest was just an excellent bonus. } – May 18, 12:44 PM
- paradisemomster { What a great analogy for motherhood! I was heavy in the Bitter Greens and Sweets this mother's day as well. Beautiful family! } – May 18, 11:59 AM
- Marcy { Thanks for reaching out, and welcome. I will check out the links. } – May 18, 8:53 AM
Celebrate your courage; send me a postcard.
My Favorites
- 47 Years of Great Rock: You Say It’s Your Birthday
- 50, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Push-up
- A noob gets pwned: Giving World of Warcraft a try at my children’s insistence
- Benign
- Guest post on traveling the world with children
- How to eat real food in 8 easy steps
- If You Give a Mom a Blog
- In the days of my youth… Listening to Led Zeppelin
- Internet Exile, Part Two
- It took me only 13 days to stop complaining for a week
- Just let go: Jump off a cliff
- Love in a Mixtape
- Mamas, Don’t Let Your Babies in Cages with Tigers
- My First (and Second) Confession
- Peanut Zombies and Squeamish Vegans: My First Blogoversary
- Sleepers: 10 movies you’ve never seen, but should
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Categories
- 101 Things (87)
- Connecticut (28)
- Et Cetera (50)
- Fitness (18)
- Food (53)
- Life's Experiments (3)
- Music (12)
- Photography Challenge (16)
- Scene from a Memoir (24)
- Travel (23)
- Video (25)
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Monthly Archives: November 2011
Fes Medina, Morocco video
Check out the short video I made about our journey through the Fes Medina in Morocco. I entered it in a contest. Please vote for it if you like it. Please vote. You can view the video by clicking on … Continue reading
Build a Better Blog
I got so much out of working through the 31 Days to Build a Better Blog ebook this past summer, so I was excited to see the release of the second edition. I highly recommend it. It has a lot … Continue reading
Posted in Et Cetera
Tagged 31 Days to Build a Better Blog, 31DBBB, affiliate, blog, blogging, ebook
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Benign
A high school English teacher once warned me and my class that we may find the existential angst in The Stranger by Albert Camus upsetting. I was intrigued. I had never received a warning about reading a book before. I … Continue reading
One-finger handstand
My son Daniel had a fun idea for a photograph at Four Corners, USA when we visited in 2007: a one-finger handstand. Four Corners–the spot where Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona, and Utah meet–is a cool place to visit. (There’s a … Continue reading
My First (and Second) Confession
This is part of a series, “Scene from a memoir I haven’t written yet.” Photo by Emilio Labrador My First (and Second) Confession There was a glitch somewhere along the way to my Confirmation, but I wasn’t about to let … Continue reading
Posted in Scene from a Memoir
Tagged Catholic, First Confession, link party, memoir, Scene from a Memoir, writing prompt
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Scavenger Hunt Sunday (November 13, 2011)
For Scavenger Hunt Sunday this week, people took photos related to the following five prompts. I used photos from my archives for this hunt. 1. Before and After I can’t believe how long my boys hair got in 2007. For … Continue reading
Matches? We don’t need no stinking matches
I really don’t need matches. I am a passionate nonsmoker. They always gave them away for free, though, so I always grabbed one. (I can’t resist taking the little shampoo bottles from hotels, either.) It became a history of all … Continue reading
Cookies and other important matters
Three things: 1. I am excited to join the Cookie Swap that I first heard about from Shannon at My Place in the Race. Anyone have a great cookie recipe to recommend? 2. I extended the writing prompt link party, … Continue reading
Ready to taste tagine again
Root vegetable tagine As much as I love the flavors of Moroccan cooking, I had tagine overload from my trip there in 2010. Tagine, a Moroccan stew, was served for lunch and dinner for two weeks, along with a few … Continue reading
Too much time on my hands
Juggling practice: “Never had one lesson!” Miscellany Monday This is my 6th day off work because of a freak October snowstorm. I love a good snow day, but man, oh man, I hope things get back to normal soon. Over … Continue reading
Posted in 101 Things, Connecticut, Video
Tagged juggling, Miscellany Monday, Storm Alfred
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